Study Skills Worksheet: Active Recall

Exam preparation lesson 9: Active recall vs re-reading · Set 741 · 40 questions

Study tip (Test, don’t re-read): More effective: testing yourself, recalling from memory, explaining it aloud, practice questions, quizzing a friend, self-made flashcards. Less effective: re-reading the chapter, highlighting lines, copying notes neatly, glancing at notes. After reading a page: close it, recall it, check, and fix what you missed.

1. 1.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering a quiz? (a) passive review (b) active recall
2. 2.True or false: “a blank-page brain dump” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🧠 Active recall or passive review: listening to a recap? (a) passive review (b) active recall
4. 4.🧠 Active recall or passive review: answering with book shut? (a) passive review (b) active recall
5. 5.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: highlighting lines or self-made flashcards? (a) highlighting lines (b) self-made flashcards
6. 6.🧠 Which is a good active-recall question for a chapter on plants? (a) “Underline roots.” (b) “What do roots do?” (c) “Read page 12.” (d) “Copy the diagram.”
7. 7.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or copying notes neatly? (a) recalling from memory (b) copying notes neatly
8. 8.🧠 Active recall or passive review: reading the notes again? (a) passive review (b) active recall
9. 9.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: reading it again or explaining it aloud? (a) reading it again (b) explaining it aloud
10. 10.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: testing yourself or glancing at notes? (a) testing yourself (b) glancing at notes
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) listening to a recap (c) highlighting in yellow (d) covering the answers
12. 12.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: explaining it aloud or re-reading the chapter? (a) explaining it aloud (b) re-reading the chapter
13. 13.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or re-reading the chapter? (a) recalling from memory (b) re-reading the chapter
14. 14.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: self-made flashcards or copying notes neatly? (a) self-made flashcards (b) copying notes neatly
15. 15.Which of these is active recall? (a) writing it from memory (b) listening to a recap (c) scanning the headings (d) reading the notes again
16. 16.🧠 Active recall or passive review: looking at the diagrams? (a) passive review (b) active recall
17. 17.🧠 What is active recall? (a) highlighting key lines (b) copying the book (c) reading notes slowly (d) recalling without notes
18. 18.🧠 Getting a recall question wrong in practice is… (a) a disaster (b) a reason to stop (c) useful — fix it now (d) a waste of time
19. 19.True or false: “copying the summary” is active recall. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) reading the notes again (c) listening to a recap (d) copying the summary
21. 21.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or glancing at notes? (a) recalling from memory (b) glancing at notes
22. 22.🧠 After reading a page, the best next step is… (a) highlight all of it (b) close it and recall it (c) copy it neatly (d) read it twice more
23. 23.Which of these is active recall? (a) scanning the headings (b) copying the summary (c) covering the answers (d) reading the notes again
24. 24.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or gazing at the book? (a) practice questions (b) gazing at the book
25. 25.Which of these is passive review? (a) teaching it to a sibling (b) scanning the headings (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scanning the headings (b) answering a quiz (c) covering the answers (d) writing it from memory
27. 27.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: recalling from memory or reading it again? (a) recalling from memory (b) reading it again
28. 28.True or false: “looking at the diagrams” is passive review. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: quizzing a friend or reading it again? (a) quizzing a friend (b) reading it again
30. 30.🧠 Active recall or passive review: writing it from memory? (a) active recall (b) passive review
31. 31.True or false: “covering the answers” is passive review. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: “teaching it to a sibling” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is passive review? (a) reading the notes again (b) covering the answers (c) a blank-page brain dump (d) writing it from memory
34. 34.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: practice questions or glancing at notes? (a) practice questions (b) glancing at notes
35. 35.🧠 Which usually helps you learn more for an exam: copying notes neatly or self-made flashcards? (a) copying notes neatly (b) self-made flashcards
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) answering with book shut (b) highlighting in yellow (c) writing it from memory (d) answering a quiz
37. 37.🧠 Active recall or passive review: a blank-page brain dump? (a) passive review (b) active recall
38. 38.Which of these is passive review? (a) writing it from memory (b) covering the answers (c) answering with book shut (d) listening to a recap
39. 39.True or false: “covering the answers” is active recall. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “answering a quiz” is active recall. (a) False (b) True

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